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Eric Scheske

The Christian Diet

R. Marie Griffith has written a book that examines Christianity's approach to the body, concentrating especially on the modern Christian diet. Sounds like an interesting book, though this review [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/006/14.16.html] is enough for my tastes. Excerpts: > Griffith'

Erotic Church Calendar

I don't whether the Germans are just trying to catch up with the Scandinavians when it comes to hedonism or whether their thought processes are just hopelessly grim from the likes of Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche: > A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar

Alito Distances Himself From 1985 Memos

From WaPo this morning [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/02/AR2005120200962.html] : > Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. yesterday tried to tamp down criticisms of several past statements -- including his assertion that the Constitution does not protect the right to abortion -- by saying

Booknotes

I've watched it occasionally, but my well-read parents are big fans of CNN's Booknotes. Now, the entire Booknotes archives through November 2004 is available on-line [http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp] in manuscript. If you want to watch stream video, 500 of the

Robot Uprising

I think this site is serious. If so, it's gotta be one of the worse efforts to profit from doom and gloom that I've ever seen. Funny, though. > If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the

King Kong

The first review I've seen says it's great: > [Peter Jackson] has made a picture I can only describe as jaw-droppingly brilliant: the most entertaining blockbuster movie this year.

Religion Always Gets In

Despite attempts to secularize their society, Germans will find their religion one way or the other: > Yoga instructors are being employed on German trains to help calm stressed out passengers in the run up to Christmas.

The Weekend Eudemon

It's December, and that means flurries. Not snow flurries, but hurried flurries: go here and there, there and here. Be this, be that. I don't like it. But it seems to be getting better. A few years ago, my wife and I figured out that we

Rudolph Facts

Everything you ever wanted to know about Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer [http://www.tvparty.com/xmasrudolph.html]. Excerpt: > Premiering on NBC December 6th, 1964, RUDOLPH has become the longest running, highest rated television special in the history of the medium. . . . > The special originally premiered on the GENERAL

Brews You Can Use VI

Artificial beer belly [http://www.thebeerbelly.com/]. Pretty stupid, but it cracked me up for some reason.